How often do you abandon your games?

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There is saying that most games don’t succed, but i think that’s not true, **most games aren’t even finished!
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That’s why i wanted to ask you to take part in this small research, how often do you abbandon your games

PS: the technical answer is games abbandoned because you don’t have knowledge to technically finish it, or maybe something more important than game dev or even realizing that game was boring and not worth working on

  • Very rarely, almost never
  • Rarely (More finished projects than abbandoned)
  • Occasionally (± every 3 or so projects)
  • Often (Most of my projects are abbandoned)
  • Always - seems bad ngl :\
  • Due to technical reasons (explained above)
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How do you decide whether something is a game or a project vs. a learning exercise or experiment?

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Game is something what have main_loop from my perspective.

It can be simple as popping ballon’s and increasing score.

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As soon as I start a new project I tell myself that the last one was just a ‘study’.

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I abandon a lot of projects because I try to prototype every single idea I get. I have like 5 Big indie games, 20 small games in my workspace folder awaiting to be completed.

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It’s very broad but game is usually way bigger or have gameplay loop to begin with, while project might be tool, learning ect. tho i added technical reasons for these kind of scenarios where you abbandon projects or games due to purely technical, design or other reasons

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FYI - and only because it isn’t a typo. Abandon. Only 1 ‘b’.

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Yeah 1 ‘b’ got it.
Thanks ~

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Dude solving game development challenges is a dope hobby all by itself. You learn computer science, you learn to write better code, you learn problem solving skills. And you learn specific game development skills that may come in handy if you do decide to follow through with a game at some point. I love just solving the puzzles. But to answer your question I have been working on my big fat ass dream game for about ~2 years and I don’t seem to have any desire to stop working on it.

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Now that I’ve reactivated my Play Console, I need to upload something anyway—so why not a mini arcade game? Haha.